spontaneous stylistic observations (”English scientific texts are like small talk compared to German scientific text”), or
spontaneous sociolinguistic observations (”Russians like diminutive suffixes better than Hungarians.”)
spontaneous text-linguistic observations (”The sentences of Indo-European languages start with a longer introductory part than the corresponding Hungarian sentences and have to be shortened in the Hungarian translation” or ”English, German, and Russian texts are more impersonal than Hungarian texts.”)
Translation Studies
1. Introduction to the theory of translation
Krisztina Károly, Spring, 2006 Sources: Klaudy, 2003; Baker, 1998
The nature of the translator’s
The medium of the translator’s activity = two languages
communicating in two Ls at the same time can never be as instinctive and unconscious as communicating only in one in translation, even the most instinctive translator develops ideas about the relationship between the two Ls, their similarities and differences, their relationship with reality, the similarities and differences in the way the two Ls segment reality linguistically, etc.
